100% free PDF tool
Black out sensitive parts of a PDF so the hidden text is really gone.
or drop them here
Free, no sign-up
No account, no trial, no daily cap, no watermark on what you download.
Private by design
It runs in your browser, so your files and text never leave your device.
Keeps the original quality
Pages are changed, not re-printed, so text stays sharp and selectable.
Works on any device
Phone, tablet or computer - Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone and Linux, in any modern browser.
Your files are private. Everything happens in your browser. Your files never leave your device.
Blacks out the parts of a PDF that should not be shared - and actually removes them. Drawing a black rectangle over text is not redaction: the words are still in the file and anyone can select them straight back out, which is how redaction failures make the news. This tool redraws every marked page as an image, so what is under the black is gone. Pages you do not mark are left untouched and keep their selectable text.
Yes, on the pages you marked. Those pages are rebuilt from what they look like with the black boxes already painted on, so there is no text layer left underneath to recover.
That is the cost of genuinely destroying the content. Keeping the text layer would mean keeping the very words you are trying to remove. Pages without any marks keep their text exactly as it was.
Yes. Change the page number, draw more boxes, and repeat. The count of marked areas covers the whole document, and every marked page is processed when you download.
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